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I’m really psyched about Councilmember González’ announcement of a legal defense fund for people facing deportation. It’s important that people have the right to defend themselves. I hope that we can make this a long-term thing to outlast the current news cycle, or even the current administration.

So let’s be clear about what happened this week at HPSCI. A Trump NSC appointee brought into the WH by Flynn who McMaster had tried to fire but whose firing was blocked by Trump, Bannon, and Kushner, was ordered to spend the weeks following Trump’s inane GCHQ claims obtaining and combing through highly classified reports looking for something to lessen Trump’s embarrassment. With little to show for his efforts other than routine surveillance of foreign agents, he compiles the raw reports pertaining directly to an FBI criminal investigation and brings them to a former Nunes employee also working at the WH. The former Nunes employee requests to have incidental captured identities partially unmasked and arranges to meet with Nunes and show him the raw transcripts*. Nunes then briefs potential targets of the FBI criminal investigation* and holds a press conference and shares what he saw in those transcripts*.

A top NSC WH employee and a top WH lawyer, in order to lessen Teh Hillbilly Jesus’ humiliation over his own raging temper committed multiple felonies in an effort to obtain and disseminate details of an FBI criminal investigation*.

*Felony, regardless of the perpetrator’s clearances. These types of reports may not be communicated outside of approved channels through official, documented requests. And, of course, attempting to obstruct an FBI investigation is an obvious felony.

Upon what evidence do you support your claim of guilt? The mere fact that some obese bureaucrat facing a quota has signed a deportation order? The fact that sleep deprived PTSD suffering ICE agents doped on roids and amphetamines grabbed them out of their beds? Aside from pointing out the absurdity of your labeling them “illegal” and “citizens” in the same sentence, it must be obvious even to a person as stupid as you that many of these people may be present in the United States legally.

Any opinions about a St. Anthony police officer’s decision to fatally shoot Philando Castile held by special agents who investigated the case are irrelevant and should not be allowed in the officer’s trial, prosecutors say.

“Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has indicated that he would get rid of the filibuster to put Gorsuch on the bench,” Deluded people seem to think that if the dems go along with goresuck, the republicans will NOT nuke the filibuster in a hot second to install an arch-conservative the instant a liberal judge retires.

2 comments by trolls shot down. You wonder what these morons do with themselves.

On another note – even if Drumpf was impeached or resigned or in some other fashion no longer Prezident the damage has been done. If he goes, we are still stuck with his appointees. Like the EPA douche bag and the Education cunt.

Drumpf is not the problem – the GOP is the problem. They are fakes, phonies and frauds who only care about their money and subjecting people to their self righteousness that can only govern by making the hillbillies afraid about everything and anything except what they should really be afraid of.

And yes, i am sure there are LOTS AND LOTS of people mistakenly charged with being illegal aliens…not.

Glad to hear it. And since federal bureacrats are never wrong about criminal charges, I’ll be looking forward to your idiotic caps-lock chanting of “LOCK THEM UP” when the criminal indictments against Trump and the GOP are handed down. Avoiding trial and assistance of counsel should save lots of time and money.

It’s always nice to see one of his own shut down Loofa Bill’s bullshit. But I don’t honestly believe that an egomaniac like O’Reilly brings on his own in-house global security and intelligence expert to mock him on the air unless he has an agenda. This guy is brought on to call Nunes story pimping, that O’Reilly appears to be defending, “a BS story” and “phony” to protect O’Reilly’s retreat among his audience of aging, impotent, white male Trump fanboys.

@3 You can’t expect a person who can’t spell “too” to possess the critical thinking skills to figure out that ICE agents might grab citizens now and then. After all, we live in a society where half the population thinks anyone who wears a turban or head scarf is (a) Arab, (b) Muslim, and (c) a terrorist.

@4 The question is whether the “interpretation” you so gleefully embrace has any evidentiary value. By way of illustration, show me a Trump voter, and I’ll show you people who saw “bus loads of illegal voters” that don’t exist — kind of like the “thousands and thousands” of people Trump didn’t see celebrating the collapse of the Twin Towers.

What I’ve heard is the Senate committee members are taking their job seriously regardless of party affiliation. And there are rumors that they already have a lot on Flynn and what he can testify about.

The real problem Flynn has is that he has been shopping around for immunity and nobody is buying. The Senate committee was his last hope.

VOA reported Tuesday that the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), which publishes an annual reference estimating the strength of world armed forces, disavowed the CrowdStrike report and said it had never been contacted by the company.

Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense also has stated that the combat losses and hacking never happened.

The questions about whether the FBI has asked for access to the servers arose after a BuzzFeed News report that quoted a DNC official who claimed that the FBI had never requested the access.

Oh really?

Why isn’t Comey being held responsible?

So why did Comey outsource the FBI’s DNC hacking investigation to Crowdstrike again? The DNC had something to hide! Maybe that new CIA source code was on the DNC servers and they had to hide that fact?

huh? Either they are Americans, H1-B visa holders or green card holders! Otherwise they be an illegal immigrant, illegal alien or undocumented alien. They be a person who is residing on a non-temporary basis in a country where s/he/it/hxm/hxr/wimxn/mxn has no legal right to reside.

Butt that’s A-OK with all tensed up because that vibrator up de ASS still feels so good to him! Plus gotta ignore laws on de books… 8 U.S. Code § 1325

To all tensed up ‘undocumented alien’ means that illegal aliens from foreign lands have the unconditional right to violate America’s borders and immigration laws at our peril.

To all tensed up here are its newest definitions

Bank robbers are making unauthorized withdrawals. Cattle rustlers are animal husband persons. Burglars are uninvited house guests. Carjackers are underrated drivers. Hackers are special coding developers.

Another all tensed up oxymoron! The true meaning of being a donk… errr jackASS!

“We published several … emails which show Podesta responding to a phishing email,” Assange said during the first part of the interview, which aired on “Hannity” Tuesday night. “Podesta gave out that his password was the word ‘password’. His own staff said this email that you’ve received, this is totally legitimate. So, this is something … a 14-year-old kid could have hacked Podesta that way.”

Let’s give the dreamers amnesty, get them to come forward and pay a small fine (say $100), and tell them they have to become citizens or become legal resident aliens or have to go back to their birth countries.

Since a lot them grew up here, they probably speak English very well and have assimilated to American society. If their parents are illegals, offer amnesty but maybe the fine should be more substantial (say $1,000), and the parents should go through the same become a citizen/legal resident alien or be-deported-back-to-home-country scenario. That’s about as fair as we can make it, I think. It’s not really very fair to those immigrants who jumped through all the legal hoops to come here legally and become citizens, but it’s not a bad starting point for all of us to deal with the situation.

Let’s get the damn problem solved well enough that we can all live with it.

Fun fact: Michael Flynn has two hobbies. The first, as we all know, is leading large groups of risibly gullible fools in chanting to demand the illegal imprisonmemt of persons who were never, ever convicted of any crime. His other, lesser-known hobby involves selecting Congressional committees at random and asking them for immunity.

@28 I’m glad you think the people you vote for will never mistake you for a Kenya-born communist and deport your ass to a country you’ve never seen, where you don’t speak the language, and have no friends or relatives. You have more confidence in them than I do. On the other hand, I’m not especially eager to pay taxes to keep you here, either, so I can go either way with this.

So a Russian propaganda agent specifically tasked with disseminating as much bullshit as possible through the American media machine, and an open white supremacist with hardline rightist beliefs, are in a highly speculative and borderline slanderous conversation about a political professional who is has worked and is working in opposition to the Russians and their political agents in the Republican party.

And you’re okay with that.

The reality seems to be is that the GOP is imploding. The knives are coming out and everyone in the GOP right now is just trying to figure out how to get their asses covered before the shit hits the fan. And it is going to, hard. Donald Trump isn’t going to last to the next 4th of July and he’s going to take the whole Republican Party with him.

Any chance we can get massive immigration-enforcement sweeps across Eastern Washington this year? Like, maybe deport thousands of undocumented persons just ahead of apple harvesting time? I’m sure those Republican-voting orchardists would support such a great show of Law & Order reality-tv by The Donald.

@32 Speaking of damn problems, how would you solve the damn problem where the parents are illegals and their kids are citizens because they were born here? By breaking up the family by deporting the parents? By sending the kids, who are U.S. citizens and may not know any other culture, to Mexico with their parents? Or do you reward illegals for having babies here by letting them stay? Explain how you would deal with this.

According to Brietbart, Podesta is in reality an Nigerian Prince and if you would just see your way to sending to him enough money to claim his birthright he will deliver personally to you yellowcake at your earliest convenience. Podesta asks your humbly assistance. All he is from you needing is your social security number.

In fact, HA’s tweedledee and tweedledum are shocked by this one simple trick to get into Podesta’s email.

@57 There are no liberal trolls on this blog. This is a liberal blog, so by definition, liberal posters cannot be trolls. The only trolls here are the rightwing traitors who trespass in these comment threads. Their presence is tolerated because they make themselves useful by providing us with wingnut asses to kick.

Simple, if the parents are illegals, they come forward and pay a fine and pursue citizenship or resident alien status. Either way, we know they’re here, the family stays together, and we don’t have to do anything else.

It’s not fair to those foreigners who come here legally, but it’s the least unattractive option we have.

66 – Nice try but no cigar. You are one of the most arrogant and abusive “people” on this blog, and you have absolutely no tolerance for anyone who has even the slightest difference of opinion with your views.

I Seattle should have a defense fund for poor people who are going to have their power shut off. About to be evicted. That Seattle should better support criminal defense for those accused of crimes. If some of the funds helps some immigrants that is great, but the councilman should be calling for uplifting all individuals who cannot afford legal advice in the criminal and civil systems. Also the immigration court is a court even when the individuals are represented the most likely outcome is they will be deported, as most of these folks don’t have the resources and fame of say a famous immigrant who faced deportation named John Lennon. If the Nixon administration had kept its mouth shut Mr. Lennon and Oko would have probably been placed on a plane back to England. So if Seatle’s mayor would politically attack the courts, and these immigrants that would help them more than any attorney will during the cut and dried process of deportation court.

@4 The prosecutor is arguable obligated to put forth their best case and to try to stop testimony that would hurt its case, the standard for the court though should be to side with the rights of the person on trial. The person on trial whether they are a police officer or convicted bank robber.

@7 The Republican’s may not need to nuke the option if those liberal judges on the court hang in there for a couple of years. With 60 plus Republican’s in the Senate no problemo. Perhaps Democrats should pull their heads out, and figure out a plan for those elections.

@13 Just because the President does things I disagree with does not make him crazy or insane. Now if Democrats would pull their heads out they would realize Trump is neither. He may have better political talents than you are giving him credit for. The Republicans failed on health reform and he’s reached out to Democrats, so maybe it’s time for Democrats to be politically astute, and seize the opportunity, or at lease sit down for cheese and crackers at the white house. Or is Senator Shumer too busy organizing a doomed filibuster.

@17 Reading the story if these were the opinions of the investigators investigating the case it’s not a far cry to expect the judge trying the case to find they are evidentiary even if only to protect the rights of the accused. It could go the Prosecutions way, but bus loads of immigrants, et have nothing to do with it and you are inappropriately confusing the issue. Not respecting your stated profession, and you have an obligation if you are going to state opinion on this you stick to the facts of the case, and state it’s your opinion and whether or not you are an attorney or a retired attorney under the rules of the bar you are or were a member of. You are supposed to still abide by the ethics of your profession even if you are retired.

@32 Better yet why not say welcome, please fill this out, stand here in front of the judge or appropriate official and take the oath of citizenship. Suggest they learn English if need be and tell them congratulations you are now a US citizen. How things were done when Washington was a territory and the early 1900’s. Unless they were Chinese.(Not that most of those Chinese wanted to become citizens as they planned to return to China.)

@42 Well why not the Wilson administration wrote the script on how to do such sweeps. They did some very successful sweeps. How to make people deputies with the power to arrest and sweep up whatever category of people you wish. Since there is no habeus corpus (just call em all terrorists) anymore makes it even easier.

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